What Government Assistance Is There for Hearing Loss?

What Government Assistance Is There for Hearing Loss?

In this video Dr Clive talks about what Government Assistance is there for hearing loss and associated hearing health needs.

He explains the Office of Hearing Services schemes and what is available for different patient types.

The value we hope you get from watching is an understanding of your full entitlements.

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About Sunshine Hearing Clinic

Sunshine Hearing is a hearing clinic located in Coolangatta, south end of the Gold Coast, in QLD Australia. There are two highly qualified audiologists who strive to help patients get the best quality of life through diagnosis and treatment of hearing problems. They are independent of hearing aid manufactures and only fit hearing aids that are best suited to the patients – young children and senior adults.

Transcript of Video

Today I’m going to talk to you about the available assistance to you,
under the government program, if you have a hearing problem. The
value I hope you get from this is a greater understanding of what is
available to you, to help you overcome your hearing difficulties.

If you have a blue pension card, or you’re a department of veteran
affairs client, you may be eligible for a fully subsidized set of
hearing aids under the Australian government office of hearing
services program. This program will give you a free set of hearing
aids, and rehabilitation as deemed necessary, according to your
hearing loss. The best news is that there’s no cost to you at all.
The second thing that is available to you, if you are under the
department of veteran affairs, you may be eligible for a free,
infrared TV headset. You wear the headset and you hear the television
nice and clearly, and it won’t interfere with anybody else.

The third thing that is available to you, if you are working and you
have a significant hearing loss, you may be eligible for hearing aids
provided through the Center Link program. You need to talk to Center
Link first to talk to them about that, and they can help arrange it
through an audiologist. The next step from here is if you think you
have a hearing problem or you’re not quite sure whether you’ll be
eligible, is to make an appointment with an audiologist who is
accredited under the office hearing services program that can give you
a complementary assessment and determine what funding is suitable for
you, and whether it will meet your needs. Thank you for watching this
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